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Data Journalism Top 10: Bitcoin’s Energy Impact, LGBTQ Rights in Africa, Pensions & Lattes, Taylor Swift’s Big Tour

This week’s data journalism roundup highlights a New York Times investigation into the energy and environmental impacts of bitcoin mining, Reuters’ look at anti-homosexuality laws across the African continent, mapping of Switzerland’s residential density, and a visualization of Lionel Messi’s decorated football career.

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Data Journalism Top 10: AR-15 Gun Violence, US Mortality, Water Scarcity, Russian Atrocities

In this week’s Data Journalism Top 10, The Washington Post did a 10-story deep dive on issues related to gun violence and the deadly AR-15 weapon after yet another school shooting. Our weekly roundup also features a look at global water scarcity hotspots, Russian war atrocities, and the enduring appeal of British television shows.

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Data Journalism Top 10: Organ Donations, EU Drug Use, Layoffs Language, and Russian Censorship

GIJN’s weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a look the impact of changes to organ donation rules in the US, drug usage in Europe based on wastewater analysis, a text analysis of layoff memos written by tech industry chief executives, and an examination of protests across Russia in 2022.

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Data Journalism Top 10: Gendered Street Names, Remote Work, Heating the US, Oscars History

In the week in which International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide, data teams around the world took the opportunity to explore issues related to women, whether mapping streets named after women in Europe, analyzing leisure spaces they are able to enjoy in Southeast Asia, or the distances needed to travel for abortion access in the US.

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